10.11.2006

As a backdrop to all this stuff, you'll see the beautiful scarf/shawl Heike knitted. It's Birch, from Rowan #34. It is soo cozy and warm, and we have just begun to have a little bit of a temperature drop, so I wrap it around me when I'm cold and then I don't have to turn on the heat.

She sent a mug with a sheep imprint (one black sheep in a field of white, don't I know what that's like), Opal sock yarn (my favorite!), German butter cookies, Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting without Tears, little tags that say Handknit by April (for when I start giving my stuff away), and some lavendar soap and lotion that made the entire package smell SO GOOD. Heike also gave me a subscription to Interweave Knits, which is exciting I look at the magazine at B&N and think, "Maybe someday ... " and now I'll have my own copy, woo!

Ms. Mei Flower

I'm a spinster schoolmarm with a degree in English; I watch artsy movies about British people; I knit while watching the History Channel; I listen to NPR in the car; I eat frozen dinners on the couch.
Is that stereotypical enough for you?
No?
Well, then ... and I have a cat.